Melville wrote books that could be said to be about: Christian hypocrisy in the Marquesas, authoritarian coercion, military rule, torture, the Leviathan state, labor and brotherhood, wanton slaughter for the benefit of human “profit and…
Posts tagged United States
The Spirit of America: The 13th Amendment
I must admit to an utter ignorance of the depths of duplicity written into the United States legal codes. I might have once thought myself an astute cynic of the “law” as I have long…
Ignorance and Charity: One Man’s Garbage…
Correction in text–12/1, 12:38 This Foreign Policy blog post was put on the Facebooks today by a friend (h/t Kelly), “Haiti doesn’t need your old t-shirt.” True, too true. Here’s the gist, and it’s a…